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OSS slashes geospatial costs for SA
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| Open source software reduced the government’s software expenses for
| geospatial services massively. This is according to Sindile Bidla, deputy
| director of the Eastern Cape’s Spatial Information Services’ chief
| directorate for spatial planning and information. Bidla was speaking at the
| Free Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Cape Town earlier this
| week.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3245
Autodesk Announces Availability of New FDO Providers; Geospatial Open Source
Community to Drive Faster Innovation
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| The announcement was made today at the annual Free and Open Source Software
| for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where
| geospatial open source developers and users join to learn, present and
| network. “As a development partner, we appreciate the impact that open source
| technology has had for increased community collaboration and rapid
| innovation,” said Haris Kurtagic, CEO, SL-King.
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http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/index.php?duty=Show&id=25271&trv=1
Recent:
Workflow for Autodesk Incinerator Customers
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| Extension 2 for the Autodesk Lustre 2007 software (Linux operating system)
| digital color grading system is now available exclusively to Lustre Autodesk
| Subscription customers. With this extension, Linux-based Lustre users will
| benefit from powerful new creative capabilities and a significant boost to
| the mastering workflow, thereby accelerating the digital grading process.
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http://www.hdissues.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=310900
Related:
[Autodesk] Would You Use Proprietary Software Ported to GNU/Linux?
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| Justas Ingelevi?ius wrote in about an Autodesk international user group poll
| about non-Windows ports.
|
| [...]
|
| It?s easy to predict that this conversation will happen more frequently and
| with greater volume. (I imagine something similar happened when Windows NT
| was worth using and much, much cheaper than high-end UNIX workstations.)
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/09/would_you_use_proprietary_soft_1.html
Autodesk Launches Autodesk Toxik 2008 Software for Feature Film Visual Effects
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| Toxik 2008 is available as a stand-alone product on both the Windows and
| Linux operating systems. It offers greater interoperability with Autodesk
| Maya 3D modeling, animation and rendering software, thereby helping artists
| combine 2D and 3D techniques to solve complex production problems,
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQW18801082007-1.htm
Autodesk F1Q08 (Qtr End 4/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
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| As customers continue to transition away from proprietary high-end
| SGI workstations, revenue from our Linux based solutions continues
| to show strong growth. In fact this quarter, nearly 90% of our
| systems product revenue was Linux based. Overall, I'm very
| pleased with our performance this quarter.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/35916?source=feed
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| "Linux is the default operating [system] on desktops and servers at major
| animation and visual effects studios, with maybe 98 percent [or more]
| penetration," CinePaint Project Manager Robin Rowe told LinuxInsider.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57300.html
Over 100 Additional Post-production Facilities Adopt Autodesk's Visual
Effects and Editing/Finishing Systems
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| In April 2006, Autodesk transitioned its visual effects and
| editing/finishing systems from SGI-based workstations to workstations
| running the Linux operating system.
|
| [...]
|
| "The migration of Autodesk systems to the Linux platform has been a
| great success," said Stig Gruman, Autodesk's Media & Entertainment
| vice president of systems. "This operating system allows Autodesk to
| take advantage of rapid, continuous improvements to commodity
| hardware components such as central processing units, graphics
| cards, and Infiniband networking technology."
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http://www.kpth.com/home/6888347.html
Autodesk's Liam Speden on how open source can help coordinate our world
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| Autodesk is donating the CS-Map technology as an open source project to the
| Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The source code will be available
| on the OSGeo Web site for anyone to download.
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1854442437
Autodesk geography tool goes open source
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| The software will be released under the LGPL (Lesser General Public License),
| as with previous Autodesk open-source moves.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9784878-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Open source creeps into mapping software
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| Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), MapGuide Open
| Source enables organizations to develop and distribute spatial and design
| data over the Web.
|
| [...]
|
| "We think there is a direct analogy between what's happening in Web
| mapping [software market], and what happened with Web servers in the
| beginning," Zeiss said, noting that the trend toward commoditization
| had convinced Autodesk to contribute MapGuide Open Source to the OSGF.
|
| "This was a strategic way of creating a much bigger market than we could
| have ever created with a closed-source product," he added.
|
| With an open source product on its cards, Zeiss said Autodesk is also
| following the footsteps of other open-source software vendors--that is,
| to charge for premium services and support.
|
| [...]
|
| "To open-source AutoCAD will be giving away valuable trade secrets to
| competitors. There's no prospect for doing that at all," he explained.
|
| IDC noted in a June 2006 report that it is too early to assess the
| long-term impact of Autodesk's open source strategy. "But initial
| indications are that geospatial users and the open source community are
| responding positively, perhaps to the point of shifting Web-based
| geospatial interfaces to a predominantly open source model," the
| analyst company said.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,61952140,00.htm
Australia and New Zealand Visual Effects Industries Support Autodesk's Move
to Linux-based Systems Products
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| Over the past two years, Autodesk has transitioned its Media and
| Entertainment systems products from running on proprietary,
| high-end SGI workstations to running on Linux-based personal
| computers (PCs). To date, more than 30 Autodesk Linux-based
| systems seats have been installed in Australia and New Zealand.
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http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=98344
Asia Pacific Digital Content Creators and Broadcasters Turn to Autodesk's
Linux-based Solutions
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| Over a dozen broadcasters and post-production facilities in the Asia
| Pacific region have recently embraced Autodesk, Inc.'s visual effects,
| editing/finishing and digital color-grading products running on the
| Linux operating system.
|
| [...]
|
| In its China Linux 2006-2010 Forecast and Analysis report, market
| research firm IDC estimates that China's Linux market will grow
| at a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent from 2006 to 2010.
| IDC also forecasts that by 2008, Linux-based personal computers
| (PCs) will account for more than 9 percent of PC unit shipments
| in Asia Pacific.
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http://www.dmnnewswire.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=110125
Autodesk geography tool goes open source
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| The software will be released under the LGPL (Lesser General Public License),
| as with previous Autodesk open-source moves.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9784878-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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